Reclaiming a Historic Inheritance

 

Building up a treasury of blessing in heaven

¹ And in that day you will say:
“O LORD, I will praise You;
Though You were angry with me,
Your anger is turned away, and You comfort me.
² Behold, God is my salvation,
I will trust and not be afraid;
For YAH, the LORD, is my strength and song;
He also has become my salvation.’”
³ Therefore with joy you will draw water
From the wells of salvation.
⁴ And in that day you will say:
“Praise the LORD, call upon His name;
Declare His deeds among the peoples,
Make mention that His name is exalted.
⁵ Sing to the LORD,
For He has done excellent things;
This is known in all the earth.
⁶ Cry out and shout, O inhabitant of Zion,
For great is the Holy One of Israel in your midst!”

 Isaiah 12:1-6

The Action: Modern believers are called to engage in "prophetic intercession" and fasting. This act unlocks the "vaults of heaven," shifting nations away from judgment and back into their divine destiny.

Reclaiming Past Revival: 

Christian prophetic teachers view

 "ancient wells" 

as spiritual portals or sites of past historic moves of God, 

prayer, and awakening that have been covered over 

by modern secularism, compromise, or religious tradition.

The act of returning to and re-digging these old wells is interpreted as

 clearing out spiritual blockages like 

unforgiveness, pride, and doubt

 to let fresh spiritual renewal flow for a new generation.

Modern prophetic authors expand on the concept of 

"re-digging ancient wells" 

by treating it as a literal and spiritual strategy

 to spark modern revival. 

They view these wells as stored-up spiritual momentum 

waiting to be unleashed

Reclaiming a Historic Inheritance

past moves of God build up a treasury of blessings in Heaven.

The Core Premise: God establishes eternal covenants with generations of faith (such as those during the Azusa Street Revival or the Great Awakenings).

The Action: Modern believers are called to engage in "prophetic intercession" and fasting. This act unlocks the "vaults of heaven," shifting nations away from judgment and back into their divine destiny.

 

2.  

The Power of Honoring the Past teaches on the synergy of generations and the importance of honor. The Core Premise: You can inherit an anointing you did not work for by simply honoring the person or generation that original dug the well. 

The Action: 

Re-digging wells means studying past revivals, honoring the pioneers, and contending for the same miracles, healings, and supernatural encounters to occur in the present day.

3.  

Overcoming the Enemy's Blockages

Prophetic well-digging around the specific battles Isaac faced in Genesis.

The Core Premise: 

Different types of spiritual "debris" 

stop up the flow of God's power.

The Action: 

To unstop the wells, believers must prophetically overcome specific spirits:

Esek (Striving/Argument): Overcoming the flesh, doubt, and disappointment.

Sitna (Hostility): 

Pushing past spiritual warfare and opposition.

Rehoboth (Open Space): 

Moving into the wide, unhindered breakthrough room that God has prepared.

Summary of the 

"Modern Prophetic Manual"

Across these authors, 

the consensus strategy for 

re-digging an ancient well involves:

Identification: 

Researching the Christian history of a specific geographic region or family line.

Cleansing: 

Using prayer and repentance to clear away the 

"dirt"

 of compromise, secularism, 

or religious pride that closed the well.

Naming: 

Re-calling the area by its original spiritual mandate 

(e.g., "a place of healing" 

or "a city of prayer") 

just as Isaac renamed the wells after his father's terms.

The "spirit of Rehoboth" represents

a spirit of enlargement, breakthrough, 

and divine room to flourish.
It is the triumphant conclusion to 

Isaac's well-digging journey in 
Genesis 26:22. 
After enduring conflict at Esek and Sitnah, 
Isaac dug a third well, and this time, 

no one quarreled over it. 
He named it 
Rehoboth, declaring,
 "Now the Lord has given us room 
and we will flourish in the land."
Spiritual and Practical Meaning

Divine Settlement: 
Represents a breakthrough 

season of peace where opposition, 
legal battles, and constant friction finally cease.
Abundant Room: 
Symbolizes freedom from restriction, 
letting you expand your life, 
career, or ministry without crowding others.
Supernatural Fruitfulness: 
Marks a shift from mere survival to
 thriving and multiplying in a place 
specifically prepared for you.
Reward for Patience: 
Demonstrates that walking away 

from petty conflicts 
(Esek) eventually leads to a larger, 
uncontested blessing.

Scriptures on Enlarging Your Borders

• Isaiah 54:2-3 – "Enlarge the place of your tent, stretch your tent curtains wide, do not hold back; lengthen your cords, strengthen your stakes. For you will spread out to the right and to the left..." 
• 1 Chronicles 4:10 – "Jabez cried out to the God of Israel, 'Oh, that you would bless me and enlarge my territory! Let your hand be with me, and keep me from harm so that I will be free from pain.' And God granted his request."
• Deuteronomy 12:20 – "When the Lord your God enlarges your territory as he has promised you, and you say, 'I will eat meat' because you crave it, you may eat as much of it as you want."

Scriptures on Room and Freedom from Restriction

• Psalm 18:19 – "He brought me out into a spacious place; he rescued me because he delighted in me."
• Genesis 26:22 – "He moved on from there and dug another well, and no one quarreled over it. He named it Rehoboth, saying, 'Now the Lord has given us room and we will flourish in the land.'"
• Psalm 118:5 – "When hard pressed, I cried to the Lord; he brought me into a spacious place."

Scriptures on Supernatural Increase and Multiplication

• Deuteronomy 1:11 – "May the Lord, the God of your ancestors, increase you a thousand times over and bless you as he has promised!"
• Psalm 115:14 – "May the Lord cause you to flourish, both you and your children."
• Job 8:7 – "Your beginnings will seem humble, so prosperous will your future be."
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• ¹ Therefore, when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John 

  ² (though Jesus Himself did not baptize, but His disciples), 

  ³ He left Judea and departed again to Galilee. ⁴ But He needed to go through Samaria.
  ⁵ So He came to a city of Samaria which is called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. 

  ⁶ Now Jacob’s well was there. 

  Jesus therefore, being wearied from His journey, sat thus by the well. 

  It was about the sixth hour.
  ⁷ A woman of Samaria came to draw water. 

  Jesus said to her, “Give Me a drink.” 

  ⁸ For His disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.
  ⁹ Then the woman of Samaria said to Him, 

  “How is it that You, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” 

  For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.
  ¹⁰ Jesus answered and said to her, 

  “If you knew the gift of God, 

  and who it is who says to you, 

  ‘Give Me a drink,’ 

  you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”
  ¹¹ The woman said to Him, 

  “Sir, You have nothing to draw with, 

  and the well is deep. 

  Where then do You get that living water? 

  ¹² Are You greater than our father Jacob, 

  who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, 

  as well as his sons and his livestock?”
  ¹³ Jesus answered and said to her, 

  “Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, 

  ¹⁴ but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. 

  But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.”
  ¹⁵ The woman said to Him, 

  “Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come here to draw.”
  ¹⁶ Jesus said to her, 

  “Go, call your husband, and come here.”
  ¹⁷ The woman answered and said, 

  “I have no husband.”
  Jesus said to her, “You have well said, ‘I have no husband,’ ¹⁸ for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you now have is not your husband; in that you spoke truly.”
  ¹⁹ The woman said to Him, 

  “Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. 

  ²⁰ Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where one ought to worship.”
  ²¹ Jesus said to her, 

  “Woman, believe Me, 

  the hour is coming when you will neither on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, worship the Father. 

  ²² You worship what you do not know; 

  we know what we worship, 

  for salvation is of the Jews. 

  ²³ But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; 

  for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. 

  ²⁴ God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”
  ²⁵ The woman said to Him, 

  “I know that Messiah is coming” 

  (who is called Christ). 

  “When He comes, He will tell us all things.”
  ²⁶ Jesus said to her, 

  “I who speak to you am He.”
  The Whitened Harvest
  ²⁷ And at this point His disciples came, 

  and they marveled that He talked with a woman; 

  yet no one said, 

  “What do You seek?” 

  or, “Why are You talking with her?”
  ²⁸ The woman then left her waterpot, went her way into the city, and said to the men, 

  ²⁹ “Come, see a Man who told me all things that I ever did. Could this be the Christ?” 

  ³⁰ Then they went out of the city and came to Him.
  ³¹ In the meantime His disciples urged Him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.”
  ³² But He said to them, 

  “I have food to eat of which you do not know.”
  ³³ Therefore the disciples said to one another, “Has anyone brought Him anything to eat?”
  ³⁴ Jesus said to them, 

  “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, 

  and to finish His work. 

  ³⁵ Do you not say, ‘There are still four months and then comes the harvest’? 

  Behold, I say to you, 

  lift up your eyes and look at the fields, 

  for they are already white for harvest! 

  ³⁶ And he who reaps receives wages, 

  and gathers fruit for eternal life, 

  that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together. 

  ³⁷ For in this the saying is true: ‘One sows and another reaps.’ ³⁸ I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; others have labored, and you have entered into their labors.” 

  John 4:1-38

• A Call, to 'return to ancient wells', in the spirit

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